Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Issue 44, 8 March 1895, Page 4

Irish News.

(From contemporaries. ) Antrim. — A special meeting of the Council of the Belfast Chamber of Commerce was held last week to receive the report of the deputation to Mr Arnold Morley, M.P,, with respect to the acceleration of tbe mails between London and Dublin. The following resolution was unanimously adopted :—": — " The Belfast Chamber are much please 1 to learn from the report that the Poatmoßter-General contemplates making special arrangements for forwarding the tranuAtlantlc mails to Queenstown, and express the hope that no effort will be spared to complete this arrangement at the earliest possible date, aa they agree that any interference with the service via Queenstown would be a great injustice to Ireland and a national loss." Armagh*— At the recent meeting of the Armagh Board of Guardians— Mr John S. Biggs in the chair — a letter was read from the clerk of the Drogheda Poor-law Union enclosing a resolution, of which the following is a copy :—": — " That we, the Drogheda Board of Guardians, call upon the Government at the firßt sitting of Parliament to have all judicial rents fixed up to the present revised for at least the coming three years, as has beea done heretofore, on account of the great reduction in prices of all farm produce in Ireland this year, with no prospect of any improvement in the future, on account of foreign competition ; and that a copj of this resolution be Bent to each ot the unions in Ireland, as also to Messrs Morley, John Redmond and Justin McCarthy." Mr Henry Williamson said he would move that the resolution be adopted. The farmers at the present time were in a bad state, and he would suggest that a copy of it be sent to Colonel Saunderson and Mr Dnnbar P. Barton. Mr Henry Limb seconded the proposition. Mr Naye moved as an amendment, and Mr George Rice seconded same, to thg effect that the resolution should be treated as similar resolutions had been done by that board ( viz., marked " read." A vote was then taken on the matter, when thirteen voied for the amendment a .d nins against. Clare. — Among the pr -^ntraen's at tbe Clare County at Lirge Presentment IS s»iors a tew days a^o wan one from the Receiver of Constabulary for £2 874 14^ llii, beiu^ half the cost of extra police foi the half-year et ding September 30. Mr Michael llogan said tliey ought to protest against the presentment. The charge was nearly £0,000 a year, and since the ytar 1880 they lad paid nearly £80 000, and tbe time had now arrived when they should declare against the tax. Oa the proposition of Mr Hogan, seconded by Colonel P*ter«on, the following wan aloptel :— " Tbac we the maglstrates and associated oesspayers at the Clare County at Large Presentmerit Sessions, hereby respectfully request that the Irish Government, in the present peaceable condition of Clare, would relieve the overburdened taxpayers of the county of the cost of the extia police." Cork.— The Kmsale monthly fairs have been gradually declining in the number of buyers, the quantity of beas^B for sale and in the business done. On Tuesday and Wednesday last Mr Savage French, Cuskinny attended at^Middleton to receive the Mar:h and SeptembTreits du3 to the landlord, (Captain M. J. Longfield, Caatlenwtyr), ani sixty tenants from Ballycofon, Doneenac >tter, Maytown, Billylanders, and Balljardiine, came into Midleton and paid their rents. Several other tenants were unable to fully pay their rents, and the agent granted an extension of time. All who made payments were gnnted a reduction of 20 per cent. A reward for gallantry was made on Saturday by the Norwegian Government, through Mr Walter J. Cumminp, chairman of the Harbour Board, Cork, to John Clancey, of Whitegate, Queenstown, late quartermaster of Cunard liner Cephulonia, in the shape of a valuable medal. Clancpy in the month of January lust, with six shipmate?, proceeded in tbe Cephalonia's lifeboat and rtscuei, under most difficult circumstances, the entire crew of sixteen hands of the Norwegian hark Dagpny, which vessel was (lying signals of distress and in a Binking condition in the Atlantic. The presentation took place

at the Harbour offioa, in preience of the Norwegian Consul, Mr Harvey ; the harbour master, deputy harbour matter and many pilots. Donegal*— Mr McGladp, I.N.S , made his annual inspection of St Catharine's Convent of Mercy, Ballyshannon, during last we»k. All children were presented for examination, and the results have been made known to the Sisten. Of the l>rge number under examination not half adrzjn failed, the passes being nearly 98 percent. Dublin* — The Freeman t Journal remarks on the absence of Irish namos from the list of N»w Year's Honours, and says it is strange how few servants of the Crown in Ireland ever receive recognition unless they happen to be policemen. Fermanagh.— A meeting of th« tenants on tbe Enniekillen school estate was held at Darrylesttr, crossroad?, on Sunday, at which the following resolution was unanimously adopted :—" That we, the tenants on the Enniekillen school estate, judicial and nonjudicial, think the abatement of three shillings in the pound inadequate considering the very bad crops, and that the judicial tenants are painfnlly surprised and disappointed to find that they are excluded from any reduction whatever, and we ask your board to reconsider the matter and grant them a substantial abatement alBo." Galway. — Mr Charles Costello, a promising young Gal wayman, died last week in Dublin, of typhoid fever. He was only 23 years of age. In his twentieth year he joined the literary staff of the FreemarCt Journal, and was a most indefatigable worker. The deceased was a native of Killimore. He was a very talented young man, a good writer and zealoas Btudent of the French and German classics. On Tuesday morning the Midland Great Western Bailwsy Company opened a new line as far as Oughterard (16£ miles in length). The construction of the remaining section of the liae bet weea Oughterard and Clifden (32£ miles ia length) is in a forward state, and it is expected that in a month or two it will be ready for opening. Th« Father Tom Burka memorial meeting in Galway recently was numerously attended, and the most fervent enthusiasm was evokad over the project. That the movement had not been ioaugu-

Bart, of Eilfane, and Ethel Agnes, only daugh'er of Mr W. K. Grieby, L.L.D., president District Court, Paplos, Cyprus. Capt Power was brother of the late Bir Hicbard Power, and is oncle of Bir John 0. Power.

I*onjjforcl.— There was a greit demons'ration of Nationalists held in Longford recently. Messrs Blake and Healy, M.P.'s attended. Contingents came from Bally macormack, Maydow, Bdgeworthstown, Killoe, Cloaguisb, B»!lini»mack and Killaskee.

IHayO* — A demonstration was held ou Sunday at Newport. The meeting was addressei by Dr R)bert Ambrose, M P. for West Mayo ; Mr William O'Brien, M.P. ; Mr David 8 jeehy, M.P., and other gentlemen. The chair was taken by the Very Rev Canon Grealeji P.P.,V.F.,Newport.

Dlonaghan*— Thomas Quilty, a post offica employee in Monaghan town, and another boy named James Perry, at great risk to their lives, rescued from certain death an unknown commercial traveller at the railway station in Mooagban one night last week. They had just lifted him off the rails when the engine and carriages plunged into tbe station.

ROSCOIIimon, — The Attorney-General (The MacDermott, Q. 0.,) has given a reduction of six shillings in the ponnd on judicial and non-judicial rents on his estate in Boscommon. Mr Charles M<cDermot, 8.L., met the tenants on his father's estate at Clogher and announced the reductions, which were received with much sa isfaction.

Tipperary.— Jerome Ryan, Tinakelly, haß been restored to the farm from which he waa evicted. John Holden, Ballinard, also an evicted tenant, expects sooa to ba restored.

Tyrone* — A most sensational iocident occurred in Btrabane Court at recent Qiartar Sessions, when a well-itnown and very popular solicitor named Glasse went suddenly and violently insane. He was subsequently removed to Ooaagh Asylum, whsre he died the same nighc.

A large and enthusiastic meeting of tha members of the Clogher Branch of the Irish National Federation was held at Bushbrook, Mr Michael Grim a presided. He said he was very glad to see so many

rated at an earlier period eeema inexplicable. Lt is no news to state that it will be brought to a successful issue. Irishmen at Home and abroad will rally around the committee of management, and a monument befitting tbe fame of the great Domimcao, whose name is truly Bynomous with Faith and Fatherlaad, will perpetuate his memory in tbe City of Tribes. Kerry* — So serious is tbe distress in the parish of Kilcummin that the pastor, Rev Father Stephen Fuller, appeared btfjie tha Killarney Board of Guardians and begged of them to give people employment on making public roadH. The Board said it bad no power to act in the matter. At tho meeting of the Listowel Board of Guardianß les' week, the menacing situation created by the extensive failure of the potato crop formed the subject of an important discussion, during which the High Sheriff, Mr J. D. Crosbie, agent to Lord Listowel, furnished a gloomy report on the estate over which he has control The yield waß barely half that of last year, whi c the qjality was greatly inferior. Kildare,— The solemn service of dedicating a new altar took place in tbe Dominican Church, Newbridge, lately. The alrar is in honour of 8t Joseph ; the main portion is built of white marble and Caen stone, richly carved, the pillars and general supports being made of green marble. On the panel in front of the altar is a very beautifully-carved reprssentation, in alto relievo, of the Holy Family. The status of St Josepn reßts on a pedestal of red marble, with base and capital of white marble. At the Gospel side of the altar is a handsome slab in black and white marble to perpetuate the memory of the generous donor, aod bearing the following mt-cription: " Pray for the donor, Mrs Mary Holohan, who had this altar erected August 4, 1894." Several otber kiod benefactors have given donations toward the furnishing of the altar with handsome silver lamps, candlesticks, bookstands and carpet. At the Solemn High Mass Father Orotty was celebrant ; Father O'K.'lly, deacon ; Fatber KieraD, sub-deacon. Kilkenny*— A marriage has been arranged between Capt William Le Poer Power, youngest son of the late Sir John Power,

present, and to find that the national spirit baa taken possession of the peop'e of tbe district to such an extent that they are ready to make many sacrifices to prove their fi lehty to the national cause. "Waterford.— The Wat&rford News in a recent issue, haß the following highly interesting item relating to Dublin during the Irish Parliament : " Two hundred and twenty Peers and 200 Commoners had separate residences in Dublin. Business must have been "rushiDg" there at that time. Again, it said : "The Protestant Bishop of Waterford voted against tha Untan — so did Mr Alcock, one of the members for Waterford City " "Wexford. — A Nationalist demonstration was held in Gorey, County VVexford, on Sunday, and was addressed by Mr John Dillon, M.P. ; Mr T. J. Healy, MP. ; Mr Mac D Bodkin, Q. 0., M P. ; Mr Ffrench, M.P., and Sir T. Eimonde, M.P. Canon O'Neill, P.P., Killanernio, preside!. An address from the Coolgreany evicted tenant* was presented to Mr Dillon. Wicklow. — The monument erected iv the church at Rathoe Tullow, to the memory of the late Very Rev Patrick Francis Noian, is composed of Caenstune, elaborately moulded and carved, the background being of a single slab of Kilkenny black marble polished. The pillars supporting a very ornate gable, crocke'ted and pinnacled, are of choice Italian Griotii, a very deep red, contrasting well with the creamy tint of the material. The inscription, panel and cross are of statuary marble, the former bearing the following inscription in deeply cnt gothic letters, darkened for contrast. Above the inscription is a representation of a chalice with HoBt : " Sacred to the memory of the Rev Patrick Francis Nolan, who was parish priest of this, his native parish, for ten years, who died on the sth February I 1894, aged 56 years."

Tbe admirers of the Celtic race have created a new order. Among the patron saints are 8t Patrick, St Acne D'Auray, 8t Ronan, bt Andrew of Scotland, aod St Bridget. The mistletoe is to be the symbol of universal Celtisno, A secret synod was held on Christmas Day in Pans. The day for the general synod is not yet fixed.